Szczepański, Jerzy2016-12-042016-12-041992Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 54, 1992, z. 3, s. 101-1140035-9629http://hdl.handle.net/10593/16272In the EEC countries agricultural cooperative movement is a voluntary and self-governing social institution comprising most of farmers as individual agricultural producers and household units. The main purpose of this movement is to render support for agricultural activity of farmers on the basis of cooperation and mutual help. Agricultural cooperatives in the EEC countries comprise more than half of purchasing and food-processing activity as well as more than half of export and supplies of goods and services to agricultural regions. In the process of economic integration within the EEC countries, agricultural cooperatives were subject to concentration, in tune with similar processes taking place in agriculture in general.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł